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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson 201-243
201 Science does not know its debt to imagination.
202 The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
203 It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more that the world can pay.
204 Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
205 All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
206 Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
207 Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
208 The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
209 It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
210 Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
211 We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
212 Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
213 There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
214 Revolutions go not backward.
215 The years teach much which the days never know.
216 Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
217 America is another name for opportunity.
218 Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
219 Write it in your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
220 All diseases run into one, old age.
221 It is not length of life, but depth of life.
222 Truth is the property of no individual but us the treasure of all men.
223 A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
224 Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
225 Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
226 Love is the beauty of taste. The creation of beauty is art.
227 A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
228 There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
229 People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
230 Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
231 In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
232 As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
233 There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
234 Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
235 The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
236 Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
237 The first wealth is health.
238 Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
239 Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
240 There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in the snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
241 Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
242 Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
243 Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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